Panel discussion: Judith Bennett, History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism

(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)

Judith Bennett, Professor of History, History Department, University of Southern California. Email:
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Judith Bennett writes on medieval history, feminist history, and the history of women in late medieval England specifically. She has published extensively on peasant women, women's work, and never-married women. She has also published two textbooks, one a biography of a medieval peasant woman and the other a short history of the Middle Ages. Her most recent book (2006) offers an extended commentary on current practices in women's and gender history.

Pavla Miller is Professor of Historical Sociology at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her publications include Long Division: State Schooling in South Australian Society and Transformations of Patriarchy in the West, 1500-1900. She has also published on demographic explanations of low fertility, and masters and servants legislation. She is currently working on a book provisionally titled Patriarchy: an eventful history of a concept,